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HealthKit is one of the major new additions in iOS 8. For obvious reasons, this is a place on your iPhone where all personal information is collected. Your HealthKit data is therefore very important, if only because there are now hundreds of apps that use this database. In this tip we'll explain to you how you can make a HealthKit backup, so you can not lose your data. You can loose your HealthKit data Getting rid of your HealthKit data is a real risk. If you make a backup of your iPhone, it will NOT make a back up of…Read more

Good news for people who are irritated by the fact that your fitness bracelet or -tracker is so dependent on a smartphone. The problem in wearable devices is that they are very small. If you want to put all kinds of chips in it to measure the location, there's hardly any room for that. And the small battery is often not feasible to build good location sensors, such as a GPS chip. Skyhook Wireless thinks that they have the solution. They have for years been engaged in location technology; initially for smartphones and now for wearables. Fitbit Alta woman Skyhook…Read more

Microsoft has removed the Band 2 from its site and appears to have stopped offering the SDK for the wearable. This seems to be an end to Microsoft's efforts in the field of fitness wearables. Microsoft entered in 2014 the world of fitness trackers with the first band and continued last year with the Band 2. This year there will be no Band 3 and, moreover, the team that developed the wearable seems to be disbanded, ZDNet reports. If you look closely, the listing can be found on the site, but the Buy-button does not work anymore. References to the…Read more

Manufacturers od wearables rarely take into account the needs of women. There is a surplus of tough looking accessories with black rubber straps while the woman does not want to walk around every day with the same ring or the same bracelet. Slowly a change is happening, for example, with jewelry from businesses as Ringly and Cuff. Trellie is a relatively new business. Starting from spring 2015 they will bring rings and other jewelry in the market, which at first glance just look normal but you can expand it with smart functions. At Trellie, the focus is initially on notifications:…Read more

Fitbit has no plans yet to use HealthKit and associated Health app for iOS 8. This was told by an employee of the company on the Fitbit forum. At this moment the company sees yet no way HealthKit can improve the user experience. The reaction of Fitbit will be a disappointment for some iOS 8 users. Integration with HealthKit would make it possible to collect data from Fitbit activity trackers into the Health app. The information would also be available to other apps. Fitbit, however, didn't close the door completely: although there are no plans to integrate HealthKit, users are…Read more